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...most pleasant surprise of the season for Penn fans has been the performance of sophomore quarterback Pete Wisniewski. A second-stringer on last year's freshman team. Wisnieski has completed 29 passes this year for 318 vards. He has an excellent receiver in halfback Rick Owens, who has pulled down nearly 20 passes during the season...
...Quaker backfield is not particularly distinguished. Fullback Whit Smith is a hard-running 220-pounder with a 3.0 yard rushing average. Halfback Buzz Hannum, a third-stringer last year, has a 2.9 yard average...
Since McCluskey had been ineffective all afternoon, Yovicsin put in second stringer John Shevlin to try to move the team. With about eight minutes to go, Harvard ground out yardage from its own 44 to the Cornell 28. Then the Big Red defense had its finest hour. Grant was stopped for a one yard loss, and Leo was hit behind the line on an end sweep. Shevlin tried to pass on third down, but the throw was battered down by the onrushing Cornell line. There was little Harvard could do by try a desperation field goal, and Dullea...
Cornell Coach Tom Harp had called on third-stringer Bill Hinman to try to move his team, and Hinman almost succeeded in leading Cornell to a last-minute score. After Cornell took over Hinman completed a 25-yard pass to Fullerton on first down, and then completed thrown of six and nine yards...
Upon hearing that a South African paper had published a sensational exposé of conditions in the country's prisons, the London Sunday Times sent a cable to its Johannesburg stringer asking for details. "I dare not risk prosecution and gaoling by cabling this story," answered Stringer Benjamin Pogrund. He had reason for his fears. He had written the story in the first place for the nation's most outspoken newspaper, the Rand Daily Mail. And Prime Minister Verwoerd's police were already making trouble...